Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The top level tabs, Benchmark, Influence, and Collaboration, on the Publication
& Citation page contain various analyses derived from SciVal Strata Publication
& Citation data. Keep the following tips in mind when working with the analysis views:
Use the left bar functions to determine the data to be used in the analyses.
Select a sub-tab to change your analyses views and options. For example, the
sub-tab Options allows you to customize exclusions from your analysis.
To make the analysis view larger and increase readability, click the enlarge icon.
Benchmark tab
Citation Benchmark analysis- displays average citations per document, of the set
of documents published in any one year. Publication year is displayed against average
citations to date per document.
See Managing Publication & Citation Benchmark analysis for more information.
Influence tab
Citations Received analysis shows how many citations to date the group of
documents published in a particular year has received. Publication year is
displayed against citations received, cumulative citations, or average citations
per document.
What countries or regions of the world cite the work of this researcher.
Is this researcher open to ideas and expertise from all over the world?
Author Network shows the author network for a researcher. The following
information is addressed when using an Author Network analysis:
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How important is the prestige (h-index, m-index, and g-index) of the coauthors associated with this researcher?
Use the Average citations per document indicator to narrow the viewpoint of
your analysis based upon the number of citations per document.
Use the Indices indicator to narrow the viewpoint of your analysis based upon
selected year range.
you have setup in My Settings- Preferences tab. You can change your default
country (and therefore region) in My Settings- Preferences tab.
Optional benchmark line- Relates to the Reference Field that can be added
by using the Add button of My Selection box, that relates to additional nondefault institutions, countries and/or regions.
Table View
The Citation Benchmark Table shows a column for Year and, for each of researcher,
cluster, institution, country, region and world being viewed. A column showing
Average citations per document is also displayed.
All columns may be sorted based on ascending or descending order by clicking on the
column heading.
Understanding Influence analyses
Use the Publication & Citation- Influence analyses to generate h, g, m -indices, chart
the number of documents published, citations received, and the number of
cited/uncited documents published per year.
Click below for additional information on these analyses:
h-indices analysis
h-indices analysis
The h-indices analysis shows how documents published by a researcher or cluster
generate the h-index , g-index , or m-index . Document rank (by citations to date) is
shown together with citations to date (h-index) or cumulative citations to date (gindex).
To learn more about indices, go to Include index options for analysis.
Using My Selection
Researchers and Clusters are displayed on your h-indices analysis as an h-index ,
g-index , or m-index . . When you highlight one of these in My Selection, the item will
also highlight on your table. You have the option to add or remove Researchers or
Clusters from your h-indices.
Options
Go to the Options sub-tab to further customize your analysis:
Table View
The Citation and Indices Table shows the h-index , g-index, and m-index for each item
that is a part of the My Selection box.
The Citation and Indices Table has the following column information:
Index- The first column head is labeled Index and represents the h-index, the gindex, and m-index.
My Selection box indicator- For each item being views in the My Selection
box, a column identifies a color coded box column header for each Researcher
or Cluster.
The values under the header represent the h-index, g-index, and m-index.
Column Features
Column header content- The item representing the column header is colorcoded based on the My Selection box indicator for each Cluster and Researcher.
Column header popup- When you hover over an column header item
represented by a colored box, a popup will display with the name of the
Researcher or Cluster.
Column sorting- The Citation and Indices analysis Table cannot be re-sorted.
Multiple columns- When the My Selection box has more than one Researcher
or Cluster, the Citation and Indices Table will display one color coded item for
each My Selection box item.
Use Calculation mode to chart the absolute or number of documents per year,
or to chart the cumulative or total documents to the current year.
Chart View
The Document Output Chart is a line chart which plots the Publication year versus
the Number of documents for each item in the My Selection box. A Document
Output Chart displays the following coordinate information:
y-axis values- These represent one of the following two display Options:
o
Number of documents.
Cumulative documents
When you hover over a point on your chart, a popup will display the following
information:
Publication Year
Value of the point, depending upon defined Options settings. Will be one of the
following:
View this document in Scopus link (if available)- Click this link to open a new
browser window and view the document in Scopus.
Table View
The Document Output Table shows document output per year for each item in the my
Selection box.
The table displays a column header titled Year, and for each item in the My Selection
box (Researcher or Cluster), a column header titled either Number of documents or
Cumulative documents.
My Selection indicator- For each item being views in the My Selection box, a
column identifies a color coded box column header for each Researcher or
Cluster.
Column header content- The item representing the column header is colorcoded based on the My Selection box indicator for each Cluster and Researcher.
Column header popup- When you hover over an column header item
represented by a colored box, a popup will display with the name of the
Researcher or Cluster.
Clickable column values- The document output values displayed in the table
are clickable. Clicking one of these items will open Scopus in a new browser
window.
The Year values are not clickable.
Multiple columns- When the My Selection box has more than one Researcher
or Cluster, the Document Output Table will display one color coded item for each
My Selection box item.
Use Calculation mode chart the absolute (number of citations received for all
items published per year), cumulative (total citations received for all items
published up to current year), or average citations per document.
Chart View
The Citations Received Chart is a line chart which plots the Publication year versus
Citations Received for each item in the My Selection box. A Citations Received Chart
displays the following coordinate information:
Citations received
Cumulative citations
When you hover over a point on your chart, a popup will display the following
information:
Publication Year
Value of the point, depending upon defined Options settings. Will be one of the
following:
View this document in Scopus link (if available)- Click this link to open a new
browser window and view the document in Scopus.
If you select the Option Average citations per document, this link will not be
available.
Table View
The Document Output Table shows document output per year for each item in the my
Selection box.
The table displays a column header titled Year, and for each item in the My Selection
box (Researcher or Cluster), a column header titled either Citations received or
Cumulative citations or Average citations per document.
My Selection indicator- For each item being views in the My Selection box, a
column identifies a color coded box column header for each Researcher or
Cluster.
The values under the header represent either Citations received or
Cumulative citations or Average citations per document.
Column Features
Column header content- The item representing the column header is colorcoded based on the My Selection box indicator for each Cluster and Researcher.
Column header popup- When you hover over an column header item
represented by a colored box, a popup will display with the name of the
Researcher or Cluster.
Clickable column values- The citations received values displayed in the table
are clickable. Clicking one of these items will open Scopus in a new browser
window.
The Average citations per document values are not clickable.
The Year values are not clickable.
Multiple columns- When the My Selection box has more than one Researcher
or Cluster, the Citations Received Table will display one color coded item for
each My Selection box item.
Use Calculation mode chart the absolute (number of documents per year),
cumulative (total documents up to current year), or proportion (%).
Chart View
The Cited/Uncited Document Chart is a vertical bar chart which plots the Publication
year versus Number of documents for each item in the My Selection box. Each
vertical bar is split in up to two sections, defined as Cited (top section of the bar)and
Uncited (bottom section of the bar). A Cited/Uncited Document Chart displays the
following coordinate information:
Number of documents
Popup display
When you hover over a Cited or Uncited section of a vertical bar on your chart, a
popup will display the following information:
Publication Year
Value of the point, depending upon defined Options settings. Will be one of the
following:
o
Cited
Uncited
View this document in Scopus link (if available)- Click this link to open a new
browser window and view the document in Scopus.
Table View
The Cited/Uncited Document Table displays whether or not the documents published
for a given year were cited or not cited for each item in the My Selection box.
My Selection indicator- For each item being viewed in the My Selection box, a
column identifies a color coded box column header for each Researcher or
Cluster.
The values under the header are based on your Options setting:
o
Column Features
Column header content- The item representing the column header is colorcoded based on the My Selection box indicator for each Cluster and Researcher.
Depending upon the selected calculation mode, the color coded columns can
have either two sub-columns for Cited and Uncited documents, or one subcolumn for % uncited.
Column header popup- When you hover over an column header item
represented by a colored box, a popup will display with the name of the
Researcher or Cluster.
Clickable column values- The values displayed for Cited, Uncited, and %
uncited in the table are clickable. Clicking one of these items will open Scopus
in a new browser window.
The Year values are not clickable.
Multiple columns- When the My Selection box has more than one Researcher
or Cluster, the Citations Received Table will display one color coded item for
each My Selection box item.
What countries or regions of the world cite the work of this researcher.
Is this researcher open to ideas and expertise from all over the world?
Geographical area.
Value of the point, depending upon defined Options settings. Will be one of the
following:
View documents in Scopus link (if available)- Click this link to open a new
browser window and view the document in Scopus.
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This column represents the list of countries and regions in alphabetical order.
Column features
Column header content- The item representing the column header is colorcoded based on the My Selection box indicator for each Cluster and Researcher.
Column header popup- When you hover over an column header item
represented by a colored box, a popup will display with the name of the
Researcher or Cluster.
Column sorting- Sorting is not available for the Cumulative view table.
Multiple columns- When the My Selection box has more than one Researcher
or Cluster, the Cumulative view table will display one color coded item for each
My Selection box item.
Options
Go to the Options sub-tab to further customize your analysis:
Use Calculation mode chart the absolute (number of citations received for all
items published per year), cumulative (total citations received for all items
published up to current year), or average citations per document.
What countries or regions of the world cite the work of this researcher.
Is this researcher open to ideas and expertise from all over the world?
The Trend view chart is a line chart which plots the Publication year versus Number
of documents, Citations received, or Average citations per document based
upon a Region and Country selection for each item in the My Selection box.
Each My Selection box item is color coded and is represented on the line chart as a
plot indicator of the same color as used in the My Selection box.
A Trend view chart displays the following coordinate information:
Number of documents
Citations received
The Trend view table displays a color indicator for each researcher or cluster in the My
Selection box. Each color indicates an Input Options setting for either a Number of
documents, Citations received, or Average citations per document for a
particular region or country.
The table displays a column header titled Year, and for each item in the My Selection
box (Researcher or Cluster), a column header titled either Number of documents,
Citations received, or Average citations per document.
My Selection indicator- For each item being views in the My Selection box, a
column identifies a color coded box column header for each Researcher or
Cluster.
The values under the header represent Number of documents, Citations
received, or Average citations per document.
Column features
Column header content- The item representing the column header is colorcoded based on the My Selection box indicator for each Cluster and Researcher.
Column header popup- When you hover over an column header item
represented by a colored box, a popup will display with the name of the
Researcher or Cluster.
Column sorting- Each color coded column in the table is sortable. All columns
are sortable in both ascending and descending order..
Multiple columns- When the My Selection box has more than one Researcher
or Cluster, the Cumulative view table will display one color coded item for each
My Selection box item.
Options
Go to the Options sub-tab to further customize your analysis:
Use Calculation mode chart the absolute (number of citations received for all
items published per year), cumulative (total citations received for all items
published up to current year), or average citations per document.
Setting co-authors
The Set co-authors tab is used to select co-authors for each Researcher or Cluster to
be used in a Author Network analysis chart or table.
Each Researcher or Cluster listed in the My Selection box is displayed on the Coauthor tab, and you may select up to 4 co-authors for each.
The top 4 co-authors for each Researcher or Cluster is selected as the default.
Number of documents
Cumulative citations
Citations received
Cumulative citations
Chart tips:
The lone bubble on the top of each vertical bar represents the the h-index or gindex value of a researcher or cluster.
The bubbles on the left and right of the vertical bar represent the Number of
documents co-authored with a specific co-author of a researcher or cluster.
The sizes of the bubbles located on the left and right of the vertical bar
represents the h-index or g-index value of a specific co-author associated with a
researcher or cluster.
When you hover over a bubble on your chart, a popup will display additional
information.
Chart view
The Author Network analysis table displays the h-index or g-index and the cumulated
Number of documents or Citations received to date for documents published for a
set of co-authors for each Researcher or Cluster indicated in the My Selection box.
The Author Network analysis table displays the following information:
The second level is each co-author for the Researcher or Cluster. All coauthors associated with the Researcher or Cluster is listed here.
h-index or g-index- Displays one or the other for each Researcher or Cluster
indicated in the My Selection box, or for each co-author associated with each
Researcher or Cluster.
Options
or g-index
Use Exclude from analysis to exclude self-citations from your researcher and
cluster data.
You should always compare researchers and/or clusters within a similar subject
field, because the analyses in SciVal Strata are not normalized. If you compare
researchers and/or clusters who are in different fields, the results will always be
dominated by the high output and citation rates characteristic of life sciences as
opposed to, say, social sciences.
You could create a cluster and compare the overall cluster with its individual
components to understand their contribution to the cluster.
Click on a cluster and drag and drop a researcher to the chart area. You can
highlight multiple items using Shift or Control.
Click on a cluster and drag and drop a researcher to the chart area. You can
highlight multiple items using Shift or Control
Use the Add button to find a researcher's output information such as author
profile, documents in the profile, etc.
To create a document set for a particular researcher, click a researcher name and then
click the Add document set button. The documents for that author display and you
can select some or all of those documents to create your document set.
Deleting a researcher or document set
Click a researcher or document set in the Researchers box and click delete. To delete
2 or more researchers or document sets at the same time, select multiple check boxes
and click delete. Then click Yes to confirm the delete.
Editing a researcher or document set
To rename the researcher or document set, click a researcher or document set in the
Researcher box and click edit. Then type in the new name. Note that you cannot edit
multiple names at the same time.
Searching for a researcher or document set
Click the search button to display the search field. Enter the names or initials to filter
the researcher names in the box.
How My Selection works with analyses views
Use My Selection to identify Researchers , Document sets , or Clusters for your
analysis. When you highlight one of these in My Selection, the item will also highlight
on your chart or table. You have the option to add or remove researchers, document
sets, or clusters from your analysis, up to a maximum of 10 items. You can also click
Expand to view more of the researcher and cluster boxes.
Adding items to My Selection
There are three ways to add items to your analysis:
Click on a box and drag and drop a researcher, document set, or cluster to My
Selection box. You can highlight multiple items using Shift or Control.
Click on a box and drag and drop a researcher,document set, or cluster to the
chart area. You can highlight multiple items using Shift or Control.
Click the Add button associated with My Selection box to identify your
benchmarks:
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Otherwise, you can select a country from the list. Note that you can not
add benchmark countries from the Influence or Collaboration pages.
Additional items can be selected. You can select one or more items from
researcher, cluster, institution, country, or region to add at any one time.
You can also create clusters in the My Settings area on the Clusters tab.
Adding a cluster
There are three ways to add clusters to your analyses charts:
Click on a cluster and drag and drop to Clusters box. You can highlight multiple
items using Shift or Control.
Click on a cluster and drag and drop to the chart area. You can highlight
multiple items using Shift or Control.
Use the Add button and enter the new cluster name. Then click Add new
cluster.
Deleting a cluster
Click a name in the Clusters box and click delete. To delete 2 or more clusters at the
same time, select multiple check boxes and click delete. Then click Yes to confirm the
delete.
Exclude information from analysis
To exclude certain types of information from your analysis, select an option and click
Apply. Changes are stored for your current session, but not in your next session, and
the changes will only affect the current analysis you are reviewing.
Options include:
No exclusion
The h-index therefore reflects both the quantity (number of publications) and the
quality (number of citations) received by a data-set.
To calculate the h-index for an author's publishing set
h is indicated when the citation and document count is equal or as close as possible.
This is author's h-index.
What is the g-index?
The g-index attempts to address limitations of the h-index. One problem with the hindex is its insensitivity to one or a few highly cited papers; if a paper has more than h
citations, it does not then make any difference to the h-index whether it has received
10 or 1,000 citations, although this makes quite a difference to the real impact of a
dataset. People often argue that those papers with many more citations than the hindex are the ones that give reputation, and should be more highly weighted. The gindex is one way to apply this weighting.
The bibliometrician Leo Egghe has proposed the g-index, which gives additional
weighting to a scientists most cited papers and is argued to be more reflective of true
impact. The g-index is the highest number of papers, g, that have cumulatively
received at least g2 lifetime citations.
To calculate the g-index for a researcher:
1. Rank documents by lifetime citation count.
2. Calculate the square of the rank.
3. Cumulatively sum the citations.
The researcher's g-index is the highest number for which it is true to say that the
cumulative total citations are the same as or higher than the square of the document
rank.
What is the m-index?
The m-index is another means to measure both the productivity and impact of the
published work of a scientist. The m-index is defined as h divided by n, where n is the
number of years since the first published paper of the scientist. This index is useful in
comparing scientists of different seniority. If a scientist becomes less productive over
time, the m-index will reflect this. However, the h-index would continue to be a means
for measuring cumulative achievement since that can increase even after the scientist
is no longer publishing papers.
Collaboration Calculation mode options
You have the option to exclude certain types of information from your analysis.
Changes are stored for your current session, but not in your next session, and the
changes will only affect the current analysis you are reviewing.
1. Select a Calculation mode option. Available options are:
o Absolute- Number of documents published in this year that have been
cited at least once (Cited), or have not been cited at (Uncited).
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2. Click Apply. Your analysis will update according to the selections you have
made.
Input options
You have the option to exclude certain types of information from your analysis.
Changes are stored for your current session, but not in your next session, and the
changes will only affect the current analysis you are reviewing.
To set the input,
1. Select an Input type:
o Document output- Represents the number of documents published.
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2. Click Apply. The Author Network analysis will update according to the
selections you have made.
Counting mode options
You have the option to exclude certain types of information from your analysis.
Changes are stored for your current session, but not in your next session, and the
changes will only affect the current analysis you are reviewing.
To set Options
1. Select a Counting mode. Available modes are:
Whole
Fractional
2. Click Apply. The Author Network analysis will update according to the
selections you have made.
What is fractional counting?
Fractional counting accounts for the multiplicity of authors on a publication.
Say that a publication has 4 authors, a, b, c and d. In whole counting mode, each of
these authors is credited with 1 publication. In fractional counting mode, each of these
authors is credited with 0.25 publications.
Now say that this same publication has received 25 citations to date. In whole
counting mode, each of these authors is credited with 25 citations. In fractional
counting mode, each of these authors is credited with 6.25 citations.
Exporting an analysis
You can use Export analysis for any Benchmark or Influence citation analysis in SciVal
Strata. To increase readability, make your analyses view larger before exporting by
clicking the enlarge icon.
Some browsers have the option to block pop ups. If this setting is activated,
clicking Export analysis to display the Export analysis page will be blocked. You
Not must first enable pop ups to be opened in your browser before clicking Export
analysis.
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If your Export is blocked, follow the instructions your browser provides. You will
then be able to export your SciVal Strata analysis.
To Export an analysis
1. Open the Citation analysis to be exported.
2. Click Export analysis. The Export Analysis dialogue opens.
3. Review the citation to be exported.
4. Click Close to cancel exporting the analysis.
5. Click Export Image to export the analysis as an image. A save dialogue opens.
6. Complete the save dialogue as appropriate.
Naming a researcher
The Name researcher page lists the Author Profile(s) you selected from your Search
Results that will be imported as a researcher.
When you mark the Author Profiles that make up your researcher, the individual
Author Profiles are imported as a single researcher which can be analyzed in SciVal
Strata as one item.
A researcher must consist of at least one Author Profile. The maximum it can
consist of is 50.
Click Show last title to see the title of the last published document
in this Author Profile.
This is the subject area which is associated with the set of documents.
This is the most recent affiliation or organization associated with the set of
documents.
This is the most recent city given in the affiliation information.
This is the most recent country given in the affiliation information.
You should always compare researchers and/or clusters within a similar subject
field, because the analyses in SciVal Strata are not normalized. If you compare
researchers and/or clusters who are in different fields, the results will always be
dominated by the high output and citation rates characteristic of life sciences as
opposed to, say, social sciences.
You could create a cluster and compare the overall cluster with its individual
components to understand their contribution to the cluster.
Click on a cluster and drag and drop a researcher to the chart area. You can
highlight multiple items using Shift or Control.
Click on a cluster and drag and drop a researcher to the chart area. You can
highlight multiple items using Shift or Control
Use the Add button to find a researcher's output information such as author
profile, documents in the profile, etc.
Click the search button to display the search field. Enter the names or initials to filter
the researcher names in the box.
Creating a document set
From My Settings-Researcher or the Researcher selection box, you can easily manage
researchers that you are working with on the analyses charts. When you create a
document set, you select documents an author has published so you can view the
performance of that researcher based on those documents.
To add a document set, select a researcher and click the Add document set button.
Then select the documents to include in the set, use the default name or provide the
new name. Then click the Import document set button.
How Author Profile updates in SciVerse Scopus affect SciVal Strata
Any enhancements made to Author Profiles in SciVerse Scopus are also reflected in
SciVal Strata. You can view enhancements by clicking on the View Author Profile
updates link in the left hand bar of all analysis pages.
Your researchers and clusters in SciVal Strata will remain in My Settings even if
their component Author Profiles have been enhanced in SciVerse Scopus.
You will be notified of any changes since your last session that affect your
researchers and clusters.
If an Author Profile currently existing in your profile gets bigger through the
weekly data updates, or through another Author Profile merging into it, you will
not be notified.
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If there has been a series of changes involving an Author Profile since you last
logged in, information about the most recent change will be shown, not the
entire history since your last log in.
SciVal Strata does not retain a record of Author Profile changes made any earlier
than your last session.
When a change is due to a split, all Author Profiles that are the result of the split
are retained in the researcher.
o For example, say you have created researcher A consisting of Author
Profiles X and Y. If Author Profile X is split into Author Profiles X and Z,
then when you view researcher A, it will contain Author Profiles X, Y, and
Z.
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Click Show last title to see the title of the last published document
in this Author Profile.
Subject This is the subject area(s) of the sources in which the documents have been
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published.
Affiliatio This is the most recent affiliation or organization associated with the set of
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documents.
City
This is the most recent city given in the affiliation information.
Country This is the most recent country given in the affiliation information.
Give feedback
Click the Feedback button to provide information that will help SciVerse Scopus
enhance your Author Profiles.
1. Select one or more Author Profiles from your search results list.
2. Click Feedback. The Author Feedback Form will open.
3. Complete and submit the form.
Change your display options
To change the number of authors listed on each page of the results list, select a
number from the Displaydrop down list at the bottom of the page.
Sort results
You can further refine your search using the fields available at the top of the results
list.
Search results are default sorted by relevance. You can sort them by other criteria,
such as the number of documents an author has published, by clicking on the
appropriate column heading.
Not Sorting applies to the entire set
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of results.
To reverse the sort order (ascending or descending), click on the arrow. Blue shading
and an arrow indicates the category under which the list is currently sorted.
Select authors
You can select authors in a list as follows:
Click individual check boxes for the Author Profile(s) you want to select.
To import selected author(s) as a single researcher, click Select Author Profiles. The
Name researcher page opens.
Refining the results list
Using the Refine Results table, you can limit your results list to Author Profiles with
certain characteristics. You can also exclude certain Author Profiles from the results
list. This can help you narrow the list to the most relevant results.
1. If the Refine Results table is closed, click Restore to display it.
2. If necessary, use the Display drop down list to view more items in all Refine
Results categories.
Select the number of items you want to display (up to 160 items per category).
3. Click check boxes to select items you want to limit your results to, or to exclude.
You can select items from more than one category.
4. Click either Limit to or Exclude.
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Limit to: Changes the results list to display only the items you selected.
Exclude: Removes the items you selected from the results list.
The My Settings page allows you to customize your SciVal Strata user sessions. This
page can be used to create and manage your Reference Fields, clusters, session
preferences, personal information, and sharing.
When you register with SciVal Strata, then your selected researchers, clusters,
Reference Fields and other settings can be stored between your sessions. This
information can later be edited and updated by using My Settings fields to customize
your use of SciVal Strata.
What can I customize in my analysis?
The following tabs are available in My Settings and make it possible for you to
personalize your session to get the information you are looking for. Click on a topic to
learn more.
Sharing clusters
The Reference Fields tab lists all available Reference Fields you have loaded or created
for SciVal Strata Citation Benchmark analyses.
Adding a Reference Field
Click Add for your three options to add a Reference Field for Citation Benchmark
analyses: You can add by:
Browsing
Searching sources
If your institution has subscribed to SciVal Strata with a sharing option, then you
can choose to share your Reference Fields, or not to share them, in which case
the Reference Fields will only be available on your own user profiles.
If your institution has selected the institutional sharing option, you can share
your Reference Fields with the institution. Then other SciVal Strata users within
your institution can search for Reference Fields and import them as a local copy
into their user profile. Users outside your institution will not be able to access
Reference Fields shared throughout your institution.
World- The Reference Field will be available to all SciVal Strata users.
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be related based on subject field.
Only available to subscribing institutions, a Ready-made Cluster is a locked cluster that
your institution has pre-populated for you. It is updated automatically and ensures that
your account has the same format of Ready-made Clusters as those of your
colleagues. You have the option to import some or all of these clusters for analysis. You
can still create your own clusters alongside the Ready-made clusters. You can unlock a
cluster if you want to edit it but it will no longer be automatically updated by your
institution. You can use the Ready-made Clusters tab to manage these clusters.
Adding a cluster or Ready-made Cluster
You have two options to add a cluster for Citation Benchmark analyses from the My
Settings- Clusters tab. Click Add to either add by browsing and selecting items or by
searching for a shared cluster.
To import a Ready-made Cluster, go to the My Settings - Ready-made Cluster tab.
Deleting a cluster or Ready-made Cluster
You have the option to remove a cluster used for Citation Benchmark analyses. Once a
cluster is removed, it is not retrievable and you will have to re-create the cluster if you
wish to generate a Citation Benchmark based on the previously deleted information. If
you delete a Ready-made Cluster, it will no longer be available for automatic updates.
To delete a cluster or Ready-made Cluster:
1. From My Settings - Cluster tab or Clusters box on the analysis page, click on a
cluster name. The cluster name will highlight.
2. Click Delete. A confirmation message will appear.
3. Click OK. The cluster will be removed from the analysis.
Using Ready-made Clusters
Only available to subscribing institutions, a Ready-made Cluster is a locked cluster that
your institution has pre-populated for you. It is updated automatically and ensures that
your account has the same format of Ready-made Clusters as those of your
colleagues. You have the option to import some or all of these clusters for analysis. You
can still create your own clusters alongside the Ready-made clusters.
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Importing a cluster
Ready-made Clusters are locked to allow for automatic updates if your institution has
arranged this. However, you have the option to use them unlocked, so that you can
work with the component researchers and use these to create your own clusters if you
like. There are two import options for Ready-made Clusters:
Import these clusters as updateable - This option keeps the cluster locked
from your editing but permits the institution to share automatic updates with
you.
Import these clusters as editable - This option unlocks the cluster and
permits you to edit the cluster. However, your institution will no longer provide
automatic updates.
To benefit from both receiving all updates and also being able to edit these clusters
yourself, you can make a cluster both editable and updateable by importing each
option separately.
To import the clusters:
1. Select any or all of the Ready-made Clusters in the list. The Import clusters
window displays.
2. Select the import option that best meets your needs.
3. Then click the Import and go to analysis button. The clusters and researchers
are then available to view on the analysis charts. Or click the Import and stay
here link to import the second option as well.
Sharing clusters
You have the option to share your clusters by using the My Settings- Sharing tab, plus
search shared repositories and import interesting items into your own user profiles.
You are able to use directly, or build on, items that someone else has already created.
Once a shared cluster has been imported, it is your own local copy; you may edit it as
you wish, and you cannot affect the original source of this item.
Examples of sharing clusters:
If your institution has subscribed to SciVal Strata with a sharing option, then you
can choose to share your clusters, or not to share them, in which case the
clusters will only be available on your own user profiles.
If your institution has selected the institutional sharing option, you can share
your clusters with the institution. Then other SciVal Strata users within your
institution can search for clusters and import them as a local copy into their
user profile. Users outside your institution will not be able to access clusters
shared throughout your institution.
If your institution has selected the World sharing option, you can share your
clusters either with the institution, or with the world (all SciVal Strata users). You
can share some clusters with the institution and some with the all SciVal Strata
users, and some might not be shared.
If a cluster has other clusters as part of it, then any sharing option that is applied
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sharing conflicts.
To share a cluster:
1. From the My Settings- Sharing tab, locate one or more clusters to share.
2. For each cluster, select one of the following:
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Cluster Name
Name of creator
Containing source
4. Click Search. A list of Search Results will open, containing the following
information:
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Date Saved- This is the most recent date the cluster was updated and
saved.
Select All- Click to select all search results on every Search Results
page.
Select page- Click to select all search results on the current Search
Results page.
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other people to access SciVal Strata using your log in.
To prevent this, click the log out link to end your SciVal Strata session, or
do not use the Remember Me feature.
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Managing researchers and document sets from My settings
From My Settings, you can easily manage researchers and document sets that you are
working with on the analyses charts. For example, you may want to rename a
particular researcher in your profile.
To rename the researcher or document set, select the name from list and click the Edit
button.
You also have the option of adding and removing researchers and document sets from
the analyses charts. To remove one, just select a researcher or document set from the
list and click the Remove button.
To add a researcher, click the Add button. Then provide the author name and
affiliation to find a researcher's output information such as author profile, documents
in the profile, etc.
To add a document set, select a researcher and click the Add document set button.
Then select the documents to include in the set, use the default name or provide the
new name. Then click the Import document setbutton.